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An analysis of the EU's current response to fragility reveals problems with both ‘how’ the EU works in fragile contexts and ‘what’ it seeks to do. The EU needs to improve its processes, instruments and programs. However, it also needs to develop a clearer political vision of what constitutes fragility and what Europe’s unique role should be in responding to it. Institutional changes within Brussels provide an opportunity to reinvigorate the EU's response to fragility, but so far this opportunity has not been seized.